Articles: nausea.
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Postoperative pain, nausea and vomiting adversely affect postoperative rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We aimed to identify factors associated with postoperative pain trajectory and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and evaluated the effects of different analgesic modalities. ⋯ General anesthesia and PCA had no effect on the PONV incidence following TKA. Greater BMI correlated with higher pain scores but a lower likelihood of PONV. Epidural PCA provided superior acute postoperative analgesia without increasing the incidence of PONV.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Dec 2024
Cigarette smoking and symptom burden: baseline results from 9 ECOG-ACRIN cancer clinical trials.
Approximately 11% of cancer survivors smoke postdiagnosis. ⋯ Patients currently smoking report greater severity of cancer-related symptoms (i.e., cough, pain) yet were also more likely to believe that smoking helps with nausea, insomnia, and pain. Symptom management should include tobacco cessation, education on smoking and its relationship to symptoms, and strategies to reduce reliance on smoking for symptom relief.